Exploring the Text

1. What do you see in the photograph? Comment on all its details.

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   Exploring the Text: - What do you see in the photograph? Comment on all its details.
2. Notice that this photograph is framed as a painting would be. How does the “placement” of the objects—from the photographer’s perspective—influence the meaning of the photograph? What impression does the photographer evidently wish to create? What is your impression?

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   Exploring the Text: - Notice that this photograph is framed as a painting would be. How does the “placement” of the objects—from the photographer’s perspective—influence the meaning of the photograph? What impression does the photographer evidently wish to create? What is your impression?
3. What might be viewed as ironic about the photograph?

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   Exploring the Text: - What might be viewed as ironic about the photograph?
4. Does this photograph remind you of Herman Melville’s poem “Shiloh” (p. 647), written just five months before the photograph was taken? How would you compare and contrast the two pieces?

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   Exploring the Text: - Does this photograph remind you of Herman Melville’s poem “Shiloh” (p. 647), written just five months before the photograph was taken? How would you compare and contrast the two pieces?